ORIENTAL SERIES.

DHRITA-RASHTRADHUNDHU. 91
vas. 3. A king of the Kekayas, also an ally of the Pandavaa.
4. Son of Satyadhriti. 5. Son of Nriga.
DILSITA-KASHTRA i. The eldest son of Vichitra-vlrya
or Yyasa, and brother of P&ndu. His mother was Ambika. He
married Gandhari, and by her had a hundred sons, the eldest of
whom was Dur-yodhana. Dhnta-rashfra was blind, and Pa>w2u
was affected with a disease supposed, from his name, "the pale/'
to be a leprous affection. The two brothers in turn renounced
the throne, and the great war recorded in the Maha-bharata was
fought between their sons, one party being called Kauravas,
from an ancestor, Kuru, and the other PiMavas, from their
father ParaZu. Dhnta-rashfra and his wife were burned in a
forest fire.
(See Maha-bharata.) 2. An enormous serpent of
many heads and immense strength.
DHRTJYA. The polar star. According to the Vishwi
Purafta, the sons of Manu Swayam-bhuva were Priya-vrata and
Uttanapada. The latter had two wives ; the favourite, Surachi,
was proud and haughty; the second, Suniti or Sunnta, was
humble and gentle. Suruchi had a son named Uttama, and
Suniti gave birth to Dhruva. "While quite a child Dhruva was
contemptuously treated by Suruchi, and she told him that her
own son Uttama would alone succeed to the throne. Dhruva
and his mother submitted, and he declared that he wished for
no other honours than such as his own actions should acquire.
He was a Kshatriya, but he joined a society of jfrishis, and
becoming a Rishi himself, he went through a rigid course of
austerities, notwithstanding the efforts of Indra to distract him,
At the end he obtained the favour of Yislmu, who raised him
to the skies as the pole-star. He has the patronymic Auttana-
padi, and he is called Grahadhara, 'the stay or pivot
of the
planets/
DHUMA-YARJ/A. < Smoke coloured.' A king of the ser-
pents. A legend in the Hari-vansa relates that Yadu, the
founder of the Yadava family, went for a trip of pleasure
on the sea, where he was carried off by Dhuma-vawa to the
capital of the serpents. Dhuma-vania married his five daughters
to him, and from them sprang, seven distinct families of
people.
DHUNDHU. An Asura who harassed the sage ITttanka in
his devotions. The demon hid himself beneath a sea of sand,